Ben Wilson is the erstwhile boyfriend of Marcy Collins. He is played by Christopher Egan. Ben has a criminal record; he spent 4 years in juvenile hall for beating up and robbing a man, 3 months for vandalism and 8 years for drug dealing. His parents died in a shipwreck when he was 4. Ben met Marcy while working as a cater-waiter for a Christmas party at the Collins estate.
Ben was arrested on suspicion of being involved in Sara's disappearance, He was bailed out of jail by Marcy's mother, although the money came from Senator Collins' deputy as a payoff for Marcy's mother to disappear. Marcy told Ben that she was pregnant with his child, although it appears the father could also have been Judge Wallace Rainer, as he and Marcy had had a sexual relationship some months before. At the end of the last episode he broke into Wallace Rainer's townhouse and shot him 3 times in the heart.
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